Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says he has never benefited anything as a politician, rather, has spent his money to enhance his political career.
Speaking on Channels TV today June 2, Kalu who served as
governor of Abia state from 1999 to 2007 and currently represents Abia North in
the Senate, insists that he is a businessman who has continued to set up
businesses to employ Nigerians.
He said that when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was
formed in 1998, he donated millions of dollars to support the party, adding
that he used his money to finance Abia when he was the state governor.
‘’I spent my
own money being governor like I spent my own money being a Senator. I used to
finance the state. That is the truth. I never benefitted anything being
governor, rather I lost a lot of money. The Federal government took a lot of my
businesses. For me, Politics has been more dangerous to me''
Speaking further, he said
“I made so
much money under 24. I did not benefit anything from being a governor. I
brought the money they used in forming the PDP. Ask any PDP member, I brought
most of the money they used in 1998 and 1999.”
Asked where he got the money to fund the party, he said it
was from his businesses.
“I am the
biggest importer of rice, sugar, confectionaries, and the rest of them and I
was also selling petrol,” he said.
Then, dollar
was big money, I gave President Obasanjo over $1 million to campaign. I gave
the party $500 million. The only few people who could have brought money then
were TY Danjuma and Atiku Abubakar, others had no money to bring and that’s the
truth.”
Watch a clip from his interview below
I never benefitted anything being governor - ORJI UZOR KALU pic.twitter.com/pwp4VwXRdd
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